{"id":1560,"date":"2013-09-11T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/11\/a-welcome-from-furman-parents-council\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:37:37","slug":"a-welcome-from-furman-parents-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-welcome-from-furman-parents-council\/","title":{"rendered":"A welcome from Furman Parents Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Furman Parents,<a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/FW1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-8056 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 270px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 270\/190;border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" alt=\"Family Weekend\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/FW1-300x211.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"190\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn behalf of the Parents Council, we would like to welcome the parents of the Class of 2017 and new transfer students to Furman! You have become members of a very special family\u2026the Furman family.<\/p>\n<p>Furman is a very special place where students, faculty, staff and parents work together to further your sons\u2019 and daughters\u2019 education, personal growth and success.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to an exciting year on campus with the\u00a0opening of the Trone Student Center, renovated athletic facilities and enhanced academic and student programming.<\/p>\n<p>What better way to spend a fall weekend than at Furman! Please join us for <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.furman.edu\/sites\/parents\/FamilyWeekend\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Family Weekend on October 4-6.<\/a> Our beautiful campus will be filled with excitement and there will be lots of fun and informative activities for the entire family.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you will support the Parents Fund or another designation of importance to you and your student. Your annual gift to Furman provides a very important source of funding to the university for maintaining and enhancing the high quality programs and facilities enjoyed by our students. A gift of any amount is important and appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting new friends this fall.\u00a0We wish you and your students a most successful year at Furman.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n<p>Pam \u201983 and Scott \u201983 Christopher<br \/>\nParents of Steven \u201814<br \/>\nCo-chairs of the Furman University Parents Council<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Furman Parents, On behalf of the Parents Council, we would like to welcome the parents of the Class of 2017 and new transfer students to Furman! You have become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}